From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 24 22:36:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B13037B479; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:36:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7DF731C6E; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 01:36:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 01:36:40 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Doug Poland Cc: Mike Meyer , questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-database@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD v Linux Message-ID: <20001025013640.K37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <14838.4762.613284.404127@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from doug@polands.org on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 07:16:17PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 07:16:17PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > I've followed others efforts to get Oracle/Sybase/Informix > running on FreeBSD. I'm curious to know if anyone actually > is running these servers in a production role. I know > two Oracle consulting firms and they always recommend > Unix and almost always recommend Linux. There's no way > they're going to put a paying client on an unsupported > platform. The risk is to high and there is no benefit. > To the client and the consulting firm, it's just a box > that runs Oracle. BSD will never be that box if Oracle > won't support it. Obviously they aren't a consulting company worth a dime if they reccommend Oracle/Linux over Oracle/Solaris. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message